From yesterday's Debian news [1]:
Hi,
we just edited the generic freeze file, so that all packages now need
to be hand-approved in order to go to testing.
Wait, that didn't come out quite right. Let's try again.
Etch is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!!
[1]
http://debian-news.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1853
:-D Peter